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Praxis is a specialist IT and consulting company which specialises in the Chinese utility market. It offers business management consulting services, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation and application and software development services.

This will not only give Capgemini access to an economy that looks set to be the world’s biggest but it will also give it offshore resources in a country with a high level of education and skills in IT.

China has 350,000 computer science graduates every year and they cost less than their equivalents in India. Chinese service providers such as Bleum and VanceInfo are currently targeting the UK market for growth.

They have good staff. Bleum for example four stage recruitment process, which is pretty tough.

1 – Candidates must reach 140 in an IQ test.2 -There is a skills test and people are chosen depending on the demand for particular skill3 – Candidates must speak a good level of English.4 – Then there is a behavioural test.

Multi-national customers of the IT service providers are interested in receiving services from China because it will give them a foothold in the Chinese market. See this blog post I wrote about it earlier. In 2008 IDC said offshoring to China will grow 23% every year until 2013 when it will be worth $6,8bn

With the Chinese, Brazilian and other high growth regions attractive to service providers there might come a point when UK customers become less important from a revenue point of view.

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I didn't even realize Capgemini was making this acquisition. The game is definitely changing in China when it comes to outsourcing.

You're absolutely right in stating that the amount of talent available in China is far beyond any other place in the world. I work with Bleum and can personally say that all the developers I meet each day are extremely intelligent.

Logical reasoning is extremely important in software development. There have been times when our developers have figured out solutions to problems that plagued our customers for weeks.